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AP PHOTOS: Retired South African caddy teaches golf to kidshttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/3695726-ap-photos-retired-south-african-caddy-teaches-golf-to-kids.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At first, the children only watched as the their retired neighbor hit a ball across an open field, but soon enough they joined in, forming an amateur golf school in a working class South African township.
Wynand Morudu, 60, didn't plan to become a golf instructor but the enthusiasm of his young students inspired him. He provides the ki...Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:07:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/3695726-ap-photos-retired-south-african-caddy-teaches-golf-to-kids.html2015-07-20T17:07:00ZS. Africa: Most victims home from hospital after train crashhttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3692570-s-africa-victims-hospital-train-crash.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The final count of commuters injured in a rush hour train collision on Friday has been revised to 239 people, down from the more than 300 originally reported, a spokeswoman for the South African rail service said on Saturday.
Only eight people were still hospitalized, said Lillian Mofokeng, the Metrorail spokeswoman for the Gauteng pro...Sat, 18 Jul 2015 16:39:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3692570-s-africa-victims-hospital-train-crash.html2015-07-18T16:39:00ZSouth Africans celebrate International Nelson Mandela Dayhttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3692502-south-africans-celebrate-international-nelson-mandela-day.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans honored the 67 years of former president Nelson Mandela's service to the country with 67 minutes of charity and community action around the country on his birthday Saturday.
Established in 2009, the day is meant to encourage South Africans to emulate Mandela's humanitarian legacy and recognize the decades he spent fighti...Sat, 18 Jul 2015 16:13:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3692502-south-africans-celebrate-international-nelson-mandela-day.html2015-07-18T16:13:00ZMore than 300 people injured in train crash in South Africahttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3691400-than-300-people-injured-train-crash-south-africa.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A commuter train crashed into another passenger train during rush hour Friday in South Africa's largest city injuring more than 300 people, an emergency services spokeswoman said.
Nana Radebe, spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services, said 326 people were rushed to nearby hospitals with minor to serious injuries. No fatalities w...Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:57:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3691400-than-300-people-injured-train-crash-south-africa.html2015-07-18T02:57:00ZSoweto cyclists bring new style to streets of Johannesburghttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/3688304-soweto-cyclists-bring-style-to-streets-johannesburg.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — JOHANNESBURG — After dark the bars and clubs on 7th Street in Johannesburg's hip Melville neighborhood are heaving with partiers and thumping dance music.
Outside one bar the scene is different: A small crowd of stylish 20-somethings are fastening bike helmets and attaching lights to an array of flashy fixed-gear and single-speed bikes...Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/3688304-soweto-cyclists-bring-style-to-streets-johannesburg.html2015-07-16T16:00:00ZSouth Africa's Desmond Tutu admitted to hospitalhttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3683806-south-africas-desmond-tutu-admitted-to-hospital.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has been admitted to a Cape Town hospital for a persistent infection, his South African foundation said Tuesday.
The foundation, which is named after 83-year-old Tutu and his wife Leah, quoted their daughter Mpho as saying the family hopes the Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be able to return home in a "...Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:47:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3683806-south-africas-desmond-tutu-admitted-to-hospital.html2015-07-14T19:47:00ZUber faces harassment in South Africa from local cabdrivershttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3666794-uber-faces-harassment-south-africa-local-cabdrivers.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Taxi drivers in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, met on Tuesday to discuss how to compete with Uber, after rivalry led to drivers of the international ride-hailing service being harassed and intimidated.
The drivers decided Uber should not be allowed to work without an affiliation to a local taxi association or a running mete...Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:08:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3666794-uber-faces-harassment-south-africa-local-cabdrivers.html2015-07-07T16:08:00ZSouth Africa's Tutu renews vows after 60 years in wedlockhttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3664302-south-africas-tutu-renews-vows-60-years-wedlock.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, affectionately known to many South Africans as "Arch," kissed his bride of 60 years, Leah.
The lovebirds, as one clergyman described them, renewed their 1955 wedding vows this weekend in a buoyant ceremony in which 83-year-old Tutu, slower of step and speech than during his years as an impassioned oppon...Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:07:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3664302-south-africas-tutu-renews-vows-60-years-wedlock.html2015-07-06T14:07:00ZLions returned to Rwanda 15 years after population wiped outhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/health/3656318-lions-returned-to-rwanda-15-years-population-wiped.html
PHINDA PRIVATE GAME RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — The sedated, blindfolded lions lay in the dirt, unwitting passengers about to embark on a 30-hour, 2,500-mile (4,000-kilometer) journey by truck and plane from South Africa to Rwanda, whose lion population was wiped out following the country's 1994 genocide.
Then conservationists hoisted the limp bodies int...Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:51:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/health/3656318-lions-returned-to-rwanda-15-years-population-wiped.html2015-07-01T16:51:00ZNoah works South African audiences before 'The Daily Show'http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/3637614-noah-works-south-african-audiences-the-daily-show.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Trevor Noah walked onto the stage and bantered with the South African audience, which whooped in appreciation. That was a cue for the next host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to launch into a slick riff on the absurdity of high-pitched shrieks of delight.
"When did we get to the point where we stopped using words?" Noah mused. Wh...Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:52:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/3637614-noah-works-south-african-audiences-the-daily-show.html2015-06-23T15:52:00ZUK police probe whether 2 men stowed away beneath planehttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3629752-uk-police-probe-whether-2-men-stowed-beneath-plane.html
LONDON (AP) — A man was in critical condition in a London hospital after he was found stowed away in the undercarriage of a plane that had just completed a 10-hour flight, and police are investigating whether a man found dead on a west London rooftop fell from the same plane.
Authorities at Heathrow Airport found the man in the undercarriage of a British ...Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:24:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3629752-uk-police-probe-whether-2-men-stowed-beneath-plane.html2015-06-19T17:24:00ZSudan's al-Bashir returns home from South Africahttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3619150-sudans-al-bashir-returns-south-africa.html
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Khartoum on Monday to cheers of supporters after leaving South Africa, where a court had ordered his arrest based on an international warrant for war crimes charges.
Al-Bashir raised a stick in the air as he stepped out of the plane, waving to a few hundred supporters who greeted him at t...Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:02:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3619150-sudans-al-bashir-returns-south-africa.html2015-06-15T20:02:00ZRace jokes in South Africa: An oldie but a goodiehttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/3596722-race-jokes-south-africa-oldie-goodie.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In a Johannesburg bar with peeling velvet wallpaper and a grimy carpet, a new generation of South African comedians line up dozens of borrowed wooden chairs to turn the dance floor into a makeshift comedy club that they are hoping might produce the next big name in world humor.
The elevation of South African Trevor Noah to the exalted ...Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:34:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/3596722-race-jokes-south-africa-oldie-goodie.html2015-06-04T16:34:00ZSouth African cyclist hits dead buffalo in city suburbhttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3551108-south-african-cyclist-hits-dead-buffalo-city-suburb.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Cyclists in South Africa's biggest city usually worry about getting hit by vehicles. But one cyclist rode into an unexpected obstacle in Johannesburg's suburbs: a dead buffalo.
Andrew McLean said Friday that he damaged a ligament on his collarbone and broke his hand when he hit the buffalo carcass while riding downhill at up to 60 kilo...Fri, 15 May 2015 13:13:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3551108-south-african-cyclist-hits-dead-buffalo-city-suburb.html2015-05-15T13:13:00ZResidents, workers protest in South African citieshttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3529442-residents-workers-protest-south-african-cities.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Protesters in South Africa burned tires and piled rocks across the road leading to the Soweto home of the late Nelson Mandela on Wednesday, in a demonstration against electricity bills.
Residents blocked the streets of the Soweto neighborhood that was once home to anti-apartheid icons Mandela and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, and now a ...Wed, 06 May 2015 15:21:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3529442-residents-workers-protest-south-african-cities.html2015-05-06T15:21:00Z1 person killed in train collision in South Africahttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3509282-1-person-killed-train-collision-south-africa.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two passenger trains collided south of Johannesburg on Tuesday, killing the conductor of one of the trains and injuring 241 people, rescue workers said.
The driver of one of the trains was declared dead at the scene, said a spokesman for ER24 emergency services, Russel Meiring. A woman passenger was trapped between the train and a wall...Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:31:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3509282-1-person-killed-train-collision-south-africa.html2015-04-28T14:31:00ZSAfrica: Charity, solidarity arise in anti-foreigner attackshttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3507066-safrica-charity-solidarity-anti-foreigner-attacks.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Recent attacks on immigrants and their businesses in some parts of South Africa revealed anger over limited economic opportunities and a degree of intolerance, but they also gave rise to charity and solidarity.
Police in KwaZulu-Natal, where the violence first broke out this month, said Monday that the tensions have abated due to heavy...Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:03:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3507066-safrica-charity-solidarity-anti-foreigner-attacks.html2015-04-27T16:03:00ZSouth African demonstrators condemn attacks on immigrantshttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3499324-south-african-demonstrators-condemn-attacks-immigrants.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Several thousand people marched through South Africa's largest city on Thursday in a demonstration against recent attacks on immigrants that killed seven people.
Demonstrators walked through the center of Johannesburg, passing high-rise neighborhoods that are home to many immigrants, a large number of whom come from other African count...Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:44:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3499324-south-african-demonstrators-condemn-attacks-immigrants.html2015-04-23T13:44:00ZSouth Africa's image suffers after anti-immigrant attackshttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3496620-south-africas-image-suffers-anti-immigrant-attacks.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Only a few kilometers (miles) separate Alexandra, a gritty Johannesburg township where South Africans attacked immigrants last week, from Sandton, a district jammed with high-end stores, restaurants and gleaming office towers symbolizing the upper reaches of the prosperity that attracted so many job-seekers to South Africa.
Adding to S...Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:42:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3496620-south-africas-image-suffers-anti-immigrant-attacks.html2015-04-22T20:42:00ZSouth Africa to deploy army to end anti-immigrant attackshttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3494016-south-africa-to-deploy-army-to-anti-immigrant-attacks.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa will deploy the army to areas that remain volatile after a spate of violent attacks targeting immigrants, the defense minister announced on Tuesday.
Soldiers will be sent to support police in troubled areas, Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said in a live broadcast. The minister made the announcement in Alexandra, ...Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:01:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3494016-south-africa-to-deploy-army-to-anti-immigrant-attacks.html2015-04-21T17:01:00ZHundreds leave South Africa after anti-immigrant violencehttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3491396-hundreds-leave-south-africa-anti-immigrant-violence.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried about their safety, hundreds of African immigrants headed out of South Africa in buses on Monday following deadly attacks on foreign-owned shops.
South Africa's anti-immigrant attacks, in which seven people have been killed this month, have angered many across the continent. South African diplomats in at least two other African...Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:09:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3491396-hundreds-leave-south-africa-anti-immigrant-violence.html2015-04-20T16:09:00ZImmigrants describe threats in South Africahttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3489562-immigrants-describe-threats-south-africa.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Fearful immigrants in South Africa who fled their homes because of threats and deadly attacks by South Africans said Sunday they were targeted in some cases by longtime neighbors and people who warned they would assault anyone carrying a foreign passport.
The immigrants spoke in interviews with The Associated Press at a tent camp after...Sun, 19 Apr 2015 13:19:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3489562-immigrants-describe-threats-south-africa.html2015-04-19T13:19:00ZSouth Africa faces crisis over anti-immigrant attackshttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3488114-south-africa-faces-crisis-anti-immigrant-attacks.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's president on Saturday canceled a foreign trip in order to deal with a wave of attacks on immigrants that have killed at least six people. In the latest violence, mobs attacked shops owned by foreign nationals in a poor area of Johannesburg.
President Jacob Zuma had been scheduled to leave Saturday evening for Indonesia t...Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:18:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3488114-south-africa-faces-crisis-anti-immigrant-attacks.html2015-04-18T15:18:00ZForeign-owned shops and cars torched in Johannesburghttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3485954-foreign-owned-shops-cars-torched-johannesburg.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Several shops and cars owned by foreigners were torched in downtown Johannesburg overnight in continued anti-immigrant attacks but another city that had seen the worst violence was calm, authorities said Friday.
Police spokesman Col. Jay Naicker said no violence was reported in the coastal city of Durban, where the violence began. In J...Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:29:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3485954-foreign-owned-shops-cars-torched-johannesburg.html2015-04-17T14:29:00ZSouth African looters target foreign-owned shops, 5 killedhttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3478300-south-african-looters-target-foreign-owned-shops-5-killed.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least five people in South Africa have died in attacks on immigrant-owned shops and hundreds of people have fled their homes since last week, authorities said Tuesday as they struggled to stem one of the worst outbreaks of violence in years against foreigners, many of them from other African countries.
Most of the recent unrest occu...Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:36:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/world/3478300-south-african-looters-target-foreign-owned-shops-5-killed.html2015-04-14T15:36:00ZSouth African judge convicts retired tennis champion of rapehttp://www.mail.com/sports/other/3433706-south-african-judge-convicts-retired-tennis-champion-rape.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A judge in South Africa on Monday convicted Bob Hewitt, a former Grand Slam tennis champion, of raping and sexually assaulting three girls whom he had been coaching. The assaults occurred decades ago, according to the victims who are now grown women.
Judge Bert Bam granted bail of about $840, which Hewitt's wife, Delaille, paid. The ju...Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:50:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/sports/other/3433706-south-african-judge-convicts-retired-tennis-champion-rape.html2015-03-23T17:50:00ZSouth Africa's power blackouts generate frustration, humorhttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3418730-south-africas-power-blackouts-generate-frustration-humor.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Driving home through dead traffic lights to a half-cooked dinner is the new normal in South Africa, where rolling power blackouts have become a common drudgery. The government warns that forced outages will continue for years.
South Africa's electricity grids are overloaded, forcing the state-run power supplier to cut electricity to ce...Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:43:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3418730-south-africas-power-blackouts-generate-frustration-humor.html2015-03-16T13:43:00ZJohannesburg's iconic tower mirrors city's ups and downshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3411066-johannesburgs-iconic-tower-mirrors-citys-ups-downs.html
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Visible from many parts of sprawling Johannesburg, the 54-story Ponte Tower is one of the tallest residential buildings in Africa. The distinctive circular tower was once a symbol of this city's modernism, then its decay and now its struggle for regeneration.
The building's architects placed the striking glass and concrete tube on Joha...Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:41:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3411066-johannesburgs-iconic-tower-mirrors-citys-ups-downs.html2015-03-12T15:41:00Z